Guster

All three founding members went to Tufts University in Massachusetts, where they met on the freshmen Wilderness Orientation program and later shared an apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts as students. Here they toured extensively in the early 1990s as an acoustic trio.

After the release of their 2003 album Keep it Together, the band simultaneously released a fake online version of the record in which all the vocals were replaced with the sound of cats meowing, which was called "The Meowstro Sings – Guster's Keep it Together." This fake was released in response to illegal sharing and downloading of their music, and were called the "meow mixes."

In the spirit of the Grateful Dead who started the tradition, Guster allows audience members to tape their shows from the audience during concerts. These tapes are then shared amongst Guster fans, with whom Guster keep an intimate relationship. Guster frontman Ryan Miller said, "We're so bad at playing rock stars, it's ridiculous!", but this has proven to be a very good marketing strategy for the band whose success is mostly due to word-of-mouth popularity and a jam-packed touring schedule.